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When I think about some of the most impactful conservation wins of our time, the global ivory bans, the U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act, or Canada’s...
When Norway’s parliament voted in January 2024 to open 281,000 square kilometers of Arctic seabed to mineral exploration, the decision reverberated far beyond Scandinavian waters. The...
The festive season brings joy and celebration. However, it also brings an unintended consequence: an increase in plastic waste, from glittery decorations to disposable party supplies....
I met Mario in Tateyama, Japan, long after he had transitioned into a male. I should note, first and foremost, that Mario is actually not a...
The Nile has flowed through Egypt for millions of years, through a civilization that understood something modern society appears to have forgotten: ecosystems don’t respond well...
As the forum segment of the IUCN World Conservation Congress 2025 concluded in Abu Dhabi, I’m confident the delegates, like myself, left with a sense of...
Numbers convey scarcity in ways maps cannot. In the 1970s, Egypt had about 1,400 cubic meters of renewable water per person each year. By the 1980s...
The smallest tortoise in the Northern Hemisphere exists now in whispers. Somewhere along the Mediterranean coast, in two locations kept deliberately secret from collectors and smugglers,...
Last week, I came across a statistic that made me do a double-take (again, so many numbers to be surprised about these days): Abu Dhabi’s Sustainable...
Imagine walking along Abu Dhabi’s coastline today, you might not immediately sense what’s happening beneath the surface. But I have the numbers to tell a remarkable...